Hacking News

The U.S government are now monitoring ICO’s in order to prevent scams. The SEC announced charges against Raymond Trapani, the third co-founder of Centra Tech Inc. which has raised $32 Million for a cryptocurrency debit card. Read more

Researchers have uncovered a Nigerian hacking ring which targets maritime shipping firms in order to try and steal millions of dollars on an annual basis. On Wednesday, security experts from the Secureworks Counter Threat Unit (CTU) said that the previously unidentified “Gold Galleon” threat group specializes in business email compromise (BEC) and business email spoofing

Personal information of around 16,000 people could be in the hands of the hacker due to a cyber-attack on UnityPoint Health, a network of hospitals, clinics and home care services in Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin. Read more

A flaw in LinkedIn’s autofill plugin could allow hackers to steal your full name, phone number, email address, ZIP Code, company and job title. Malicious sites have been able to invisibly render the plugin on their entire page so if the users who are logged into LinkedIn click anywhere they will be completing a hidden

Suzette Kugler, who had been a loyal employee for PenAir for many years, hacked into the database of the airline system to tamper with the ticketing system. The event took place last year in May, however the verdict has come out just now. Read more

We recently talked about how Russian hackers are trying to hack routers to own the internet. This is a major concern not just for the US, but for users around the globe as hackers seem to be attacking people everywhere. Read more

After the recent cyber-attack on Atlanta which brought the cities infrastructure to its knees; the Atlanta Municipal Court opened for the first time on Monday, albeit using a manual paper based process with no update surrounding their digital systems. Read more

Symantec is the worlds leading cyber-security company and it has recently announced a very powerful threat detection technology that their own world-class research team uses and it helped them uncover some notable cyber-attacks in history. Read more

The CEO of Darktrace said that Hackers have been targeting unprotected IoT devices to gain access to corporate networks. An incident has taken place in a casino where the hackers managed to steal the database of high rolling customers by taking advantage of a vulnerable fish tank thermometer in the network!. Read more

Uber was hit with a massive data breach on 2016 which exposed the names, phone numbers and email addresses of more than 20 million people. The company failed to disclose the leak which led to the Federal Trade Commission launching an investigation into the company. Read more